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  • “Paul’s frisky as a colt, but I swear, I’m crankier and nervouser than when I came up here.

    Chapter 11 1922

  • ` ` Paul's frisky as a colt, but I swear, I'm crankier and nervouser than when I came up here. ''

    Babbitt 1922

  • "Paul's frisky as a colt, but I swear, I'm crankier and nervouser than when I came up here."

    Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • And the nearer we got to the place the nervouser and nervouser all three of us become.

    Danny's Own Story 1912

  • And, if anything, all of us feeling nervouser yet.

    Danny's Own Story 1912

  • We took it in turns to have the pistol, and we decided always to practise with it far from the house, so as not to frighten the grown-ups, who are always much nervouser about firearms than we are.

    The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901

  • We took it in turns to have the pistol, and we decided always to practise with it far from the house, so as not to frighten the grown-ups, who are always much nervouser about firearms than we are.

    The Wouldbegoods 1891

  • I’m crankier and nervouser than when I came up here.”

    Babbit 2004

  • I get especially nervouser the more I rate the people in the audience (except like my closest people, whose esteem I have fully won via jedi mind tricks) 3) I forgot I was even supposed to the act until the last minute.

    What in the hell ... 2008

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